Dennis Weaver
Also Known As: William Dennis Weaver, دنیس ویور
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 04, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 24, 2006
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Duel at Diablo
Overview: In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Touch of Evil
Overview: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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Duel
Overview: Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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The Golden Blade
Overview: Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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What's the Matter with Helen?
Overview: Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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Horizons West
Overview: Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-11
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Ten Wanted Men
Overview: When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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High Noon
Overview: High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life. Just as they are about to leave, word comes that a vicious killer Kane had sent to prison years earlier, is coming to town on the noon train seeking vengeance. Kane attempts to rally the town to fight the gunman, but not even his former deputy Harvey (Diamond) is willing to help. Harvey's cowardice infuriates his girlfriend, Helen (Alonso), whose romantic past with both Kane and with the arriving gunman convinces her to pack up and leave town. As the dreaded noon hour approaches, Kane realizes he must stand alone against the coming storm.
Genres: Drama Action Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-20
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Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Overview: A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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A Man Called Sledge
Overview: James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Storm Fear
Overview: A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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Don't Go to Sleep
Overview: One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Submerged
Overview: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Way... Way Out
Overview: A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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The Lawless Breed
Overview: After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-28
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Dangerous Mission
Overview: A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-06
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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Overview: A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Terror on the Beach
Overview: When their campsite is vandalized by troublemakers, a family fights fire with fire.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Column South
Overview: In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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The Mississippi Gambler
Overview: Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Genres: Romance Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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Disaster at Silo 7
Overview: During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-27
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A Winner Never Quits
Overview: Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his father and the constant coaching of his older brother, Pete never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet a handicapped youngster who idolizes him that Pete finally becomes a genuine American hero.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-13
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The Virginian
Overview: A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-09
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The Forgotten Man
Overview: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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Female Artillery
Overview: An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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Rolling Man
Overview: After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Overview: John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Overview: The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-08
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Dragnet
Overview: Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Seduction in a Small Town
Overview: A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children. When they desperately search for the source of the rumors about them, their suspicions lead them to a young woman who recently arrived in their small town, but they can't believe that this person they befriended would turn the town against them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-09
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Amber Waves
Overview: A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-09
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Law and Order
Overview: Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-13
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Overview: The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-25
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Stone
Overview: Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-26
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The Return of Sam McCloud
Overview: Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Gentle Giant
Overview: The Story of a boy and his bear.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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War Arrow
Overview: A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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The Islander
Overview: A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mobster, and a racket-busting U.S. Senator framed for beating up an airline stewardess.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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Two Bits & Pepper
Overview: Comedy about idiotic (the two can't even add 1+1) kidnappers, both played for unknown reasons by Joe Piscopo, who capture two young girls and hold them for ransom. However, in "Home Alone" fashion, the two girls make fools of the two men. The film becomes even sillier as two horses who talk to one another decide to rescue the girls from the kidnappers
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Gallant Hours
Overview: A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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Intimate Strangers
Overview: The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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Walking After Midnight
Overview: Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Overview: The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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Dennis Weaver's Earthship
Overview: A documentary about a house Dennis Weaver built/had built in Colorado. The concept was created by Michael Reynolds and his headquarters are in Taos, N.M. It is an off-grid house built with earth-rammed tires and other recycled materials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Bluffing It
Overview: A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-13
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
Overview: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.
Genres: Western Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-16
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A Cry For Justice
Overview: Due to hasty investigations and questionable methods of two police sergeants, two hoodlums are convicted for a robbery in which a patrolman was seriously injured. Years later, one of the two cops gets on the trail of the real culprits. To enforce justice, he makes himself unpopular with his department and his colleague, who want to cover up the embarrassing mistake
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Overview: A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Seven Angry Men
Overview: Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-27
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The Redhead from Wyoming
Overview: A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-08
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Mastergate
Overview: A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Escape from Wildcat Canyon
Overview: Before Pete Flint moves to New York with his family, he goes on one last embark with his grandfather. When their plane crashes in Wildcat Canyon, they are forced to survive in the dangerous and cold winter with only each other and a dog they find.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Chief Crazy Horse
Overview: When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Home on the Range
Overview: When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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The Day the Loving Stopped
Overview: Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Greyhounds
Overview: A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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Gallegher Goes West
Overview: In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a famous outlaw, the Sundown Kid. The sheriff is crooked, too, so it is difficult for Gallegher and his friend, Detective Snead, to capture the Sundown Kid. Gallegher and his colleagues work for the recall of the corrupt mayor of Brimstone, even though the mayor tries to stop them by force. In Part 2, Gallegher buys and trains a horse, then is surprised when a local rancher is accused of murder. The boy is sure it is a frame-up, and he tries to help out. Gallegher continues to help the rancher who has been framed for murder, and after he finds an incriminating watch, he is able to reach the trial just in time to save the day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-30
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Earth and the American Dream
Overview: A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The Great Man's Whiskers
Overview: A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Genres: Comedy History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Mission Batangas
Overview: Dennis Weaver is a mercenary pilot in the Pacific during WW2. He agrees to help Vera Miles steal the Phillipine treasury of gold away from the conquering Japanese forces.
Genres: Adventure War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-15
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Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Overview: A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-31
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The Man from the Alamo
Overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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